Improvement in spittoons



UNITED STATES PATENT Orrron.

FREDERICK GAISBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPITTOONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,027, dated June 17, 1873; application filed I May 14, 1873.

To all whom it may concern: is applied to the under face of the lid to ren- Be it known that I, FREDERICK GAISBERG, der its closure noiseless, or nearly so; and it of the city, county, and State of New York, may serve as a packing to prevent the escape have invented a certain Spittoon, of which the of any smell from the contents. The chamber following is a specification: of the box A, which preferably conforms in This invention relates to that class of spitgeneral shape to the exterior of the box, is toons in which a pan or other receptacle is infitted with a movable sheet-metal pan, E. closed in an ornamental case in order to 0011- This may be partially filled with saw-dust or ceal the contents. The invention consists in a other absorbing material in use, and may be spittoon of this character, of superior convenremoved and carried by folding ring-handles ience, and admittingofbeingmade highly orna- 00 or their equivalent. mental and to correspond in style with the fur- For lifting the lid B a rod F, terminating at nitureof theroom inwhich it isto be used. The top in a knob w, is arranged in the tubular receptacle is inclosedin alowbox withahinged standard 0 and connected by a link, Gr, to a lid which is lifted by pressing on a knob at the bent lever, H,"Whl0ll is attached as an arm to upper extremity of a rodinclosed in atubular the hinge edge of the lid, and projects rearstandard of the case. This rod is connected wardly into the hollow bracket 1) which acto the lid through a link and bent lever-arm, commodates this and the said link in their and these are inclosed in an ornamental holmovements. In view of this provision a pan low bracket or console supporting the tubular of simple form and a symmetrical lid may be standard. The mechanism is thus arranged employed, the same requiring no accommodawholly outside of the receptacle-chamber so tion to the operating mechanism. The latter as to obviate conforming the pan and lid is also completely concealed. It works also thereto. It operates Without the aidof springs, without the aid of springs. and is wholly inclosed so as to be invisible. The lid may be lowered by lifting the knob, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the im or it may be arranged to drop when released, proved spittoon, with lid lifted. Fig. 2 is a and in so doing to elevate the knob, which is vertical section of the same, showing in full the preferred operation. lines the lid as closed, and in dotted lines the The following is claimed as new: open position of the lid. A spittoon consisting of, first, a box or hol- In carrying out this invention an ornamenlow base, A, with lid B, a tubular standard, ta-l case is first constructed, of wood or other C, and a hollow bracket or console, D, constisuitable material, and of any preferred shape tuting an ornamental case; second, a removor style, so as to conform, for instance, to any able pan, E; and, third, a rod, F, with knob particular suit of furniture for a parlor or other to, a link, Gr, and a bent lever-arm, H, attachroom. This case consists of. a low box or holed to the hinge-edge of the lid; constituting low case, A, with a longitudinal hinged lid, means for operating the same, constructed and B, a tubular standard, 0, open at top, and a arranged substantially as herein described, hollow bracket or console, I), supporting the for the purposes set forth. said standard and inclosin g the operating mechanism hereinafter described. The hinges FREDERICK GAISBERG' z of the lid are arranged at the back of the Witnesses:

case, and may be of common form. A mar: HERRMANN BOTE,

ginal strip, of cloth or equivalent material, E. WM. BISCHOFF. 

